The Twinning Center Program

The Twinning Center Program

The HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program develops institutional partnerships to strengthen the human and organizational capacity necessary to scale up and expand HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support services in countries of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Currently, the program supports 35 institutional partnerships in eight Sub-Saharan countries as well as Cambodia, providing a wide range of high quality HIV/AIDS services particularly in high prevalence areas or high burden sites. Overall, Twinning activities align with PEPFAR’s focus on strategic partnerships and smart investments to achieve an AIDS-free generation.

Many Twinning Center partnerships have made significant contributions to health systems strengthening and workforce development across a broad range of disciplines and professions:

Physicians

Nurses

Pharmacists & Pharmacy Technicians

Laboratory Technicians

Biomedical Engineers & Technicians

Medical Technologists

Counselors

Clinical Associates

Community Health Workers

Social Workers, Social Welfare Assistants, & Para Social Workers

TA and Training Services

Through the establishment of volunteer-driven institutional partnerships and the placement of qualified individual volunteers, the Twinning Center contributes to the President’s Emergency Plan goals by:

Strengthening educational institutions and training facilities

Training and mentoring individual caregivers

Developing models for improved delivery of services and for rapid scale up of interventions

Transferring appropriate technology

About the Twinning Center

The American International Health Alliance established the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center in 2004. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funds the project.